Threat Phrases

Phrases

• A world of pain
• Calculated risk
• Clear and present danger
• Danger, Will Robinson (A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space)
• Det the Threat (Nickname of basketball player Detlef Schrempf)
• Dirty look
• Do you like hospital food?
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Get your tanks off my lawn
• Go on punk make my day
• Hate mail
• Heads will roll
• Hold a gun to his head
• Idle threat
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• Or else
• Our entire economy is in danger
• Out of danger
• Put a gun to your head
• Put out a contract on
• Risk averse
• Risk capital
• Risk life and limb
• Risk management
• Run the risk
• Say your prayers
• Silver circle
• So sue me
• Stranger danger
• The Phantom Menace (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The Prince of Menace (Nickname of actor Vincent Price)
• Triple threat
• Warn off
• We know where the bodies are buried
• We know where you live
• Yellow peril
• You'll never take me alive copper
• You're history